Reconstruction of lower eyelid and periorbital district: an orbicularis oculi myocutaneous flap.
The upper eyelid has long been considered a good source of skin graft, but it is infrequently used as a unipedicled flap, based either medially or laterally, to reconstruct the skin of the lower eyelid. Here we describe a procedure in which we use the upper eyelid skin and underlying orbicularis muscle as a myocutaneous flap to reconstruct the lower eyelid and periorbital region.
Tirone
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Department of Plastic Surgery, Medical School, University of Naples Federico II, Via Pansini 5, Naples, Italy.
Schonauer
F
F
Sposato
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G
Molea
G
G
D000368:Aged; D015331:Cohort Studies; D004954:Esthetics; D005143:Eyelids / Q000601:surgery* / Q000637:transplantation; D005260:Female; D006084:Graft Rejection; D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009801:Oculomotor Muscles / Q000601:surgery* / Q000637:transplantation; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D013524:Surgical Flaps / Q000098:blood supply*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014945:Wound Healing / Q000502:physiology